(CSRwire) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of the December 14 release of the film The Kite Runner, Paramount Classics and DreamWorks Pictures are donating 500 XO laptops through One Laptop per Child (OLPC). The Afghan Relief Organization (ARO) will distribute the donated XO laptops, a learning tool created expressly for children in developing countries, to students attending its school in Kabul.

Best-selling author Khaled Hosseini said, "Education of the general population is critical to the transformation of Afghanistan's political and economic condition. On behalf of the novel, the film, Paramount Classics and DreamWorks, I'm delighted they chose to support the work of the Afghan Relief Organization by funding the delivery of laptop computers to the ARO schools in Kabul."